On 03.02.2017 19:10, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:02:38 +0100 > Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> The device has "bridge" in its name, so it should obviously be in >> the category DEVICE_CATEGORY_BRIDGE. > > Well, physical device is a bridge, but this is really just a stub. > Does that count? It doesn't create a subordinate bus that can actually > host devices.
The device category is only used for sorting the device into a category in the help output when the user runs QEMU with "-device ?". The DEVICE_CATEGORY_BRIDGE is title there "Controller/Bridge/Hub devices", so IMHO that should be fine for this device. Otherwise it should maybe go into DEVICE_CATEGORY_MISC instead - but at least it should not stay uncategorized, all devices that show up in the "-device ?" help text should eventually get a category. Thomas
